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‘It took time for people to adjust to a lockdown and its end’

Kostas Konsolakis, PhD candidate at the University of Twente, spent two months measuring human behaviour during a lockdown. His study, which aimed to show the effects of enforced confinements on people’s lives, was published in Nature last month.
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COVID-19 research: From the lab to the clinic

As has become traditional in the latest years, the autumn brings the fear of another COVID-19 wave. In spring 2020, many UT scientists dropped their usual research to focus on coronavirus related projects. Have their solutions made it to practice or did they not leave the lab (yet)?
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A better COVID-19 plan for the UT

The University Council (UC) rejected the UT’s plan for measures in various COVID-19 scenarios. The Council felt that the presented approach was not sufficiently detailed and didn’t offer effective university-wide rules. ‘We need to think of uniformity, not just leave it up to the programmes.’
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Free self-tests for COVID-19 available on campus

The University of Twente will keep providing free self-tests for COVID-19 to its students and employees. As of yesterday, self-tests can be picked up at the Garage building on campus.
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Welke lessen trekt het hoger onderwijs uit de pandemie?

Hogescholen en universiteiten moesten tijdens de lockdowns snel schakelen om het onderwijs online door te laten gaan. De balans wordt opgemaakt: wat ging er goed en wat ging er fout?
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What lessons have higher education institutions learned from the pandemic?

During the lockdowns, higher education institutions had to quickly switch over to online teaching. Time now to take stock: what worked well and what didn’t?
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Website voor gratis zelftests blijft nog even bestaan

Studenten en docenten van universiteiten en hogescholen kunnen nog altijd gratis coronazelftests bestellen bij de landelijke website zelftestonderwijs.nl. Eerder was het plan om de site per 1 juni te sluiten.
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Free self-test website to remain online for now

Students and teachers at higher education institutions can still order free Covid self-tests from the national website zelftestonderwijs.nl. A plan to close the site by 1 June has been shelved for the time being.
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UT research: ‘EU needs an integrated approach to travel measures’

‘Should I stay or should I go?’ That was the working title of a paper by UT researchers focused on travel in Europe during the pandemic. The research, recently published in Journal of Travel Medicine, highlights the need for a standard set of travel measures in the EU. ‘Now it’s time to reflect and see what we can do better in the future.’
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‘Impact of Covid-19 on doctors was both positive and negative’

For her Master thesis, University of Twente graduate of Business Administration Lotte Sander studied the impact of Covid-19 on wellbeing of doctors. ‘I expected the influence to be only negative, but surprisingly the pandemic has also had a positive effect.’
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Tackling anxiety and loneliness with a good conversation

Coffee, standing tables and good conversations. Those are the ingredients for the first edition of Meet & Greet Street, organized by University Innovation Fellows, which starts today. ‘We want students and employees alike to casually gather and connect with one another.’
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High vaccination rate among UT students and employees

More than 91% of employees and nearly 85% of all UT students have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. That is the conclusion of an anonymous survey distributed by the University of Twente last week.
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Student wellbeing during Covid-19

‘UT students did okay in a bad situation’

A ‘quick scan of student wellbeing during COVID-19’ was conducted at the UT in April 2021. Its results show that most University of Twente students have been doing ‘okay’ and were able to adapt to the negative situation. However, they miss social cohesion. ‘For the group that started in 2020 community building activities need to be organized.’
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Dashboard to predict regional outbreaks

‘Predicting COVID-19 is close to impossible’

UT professor Nelly Litvak is leading a project developing a COVID-19 dashboard to predict regional outbreaks in the Netherlands. The dashboard should help municipalities make suitable decisions on corona measures. ‘One of the main issues with COVID-19 was that we didn’t have enough knowledge and didn’t know what to do.’
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‘Small, infectious droplets can persist in air for over an hour’

FFP2 face masks, ventilation and air filters. According to Detlef Lohse, UT professor and an expert in fluid dynamics, these are presently the most important extra ingredients to prevent the coronavirus from spreading indoors. ‘Since the majority of infections is airborne, namely via aerosols.’
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Curfew: campus visits limited to 'absolute minimum’

Because of the curfew, which goes into effect on Saturday, the university library will close its doors at 7.30 p.m. as of next week. The UT calls on staff and students not to come to the campus in the evening hours, unless it is 'essential'.
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Avondklok: campusbezoek beperkt tot ‘absoluut minimum’

Vanwege de avondklok, die zaterdag ingaat, sluit de universiteitsbibliotheek vanaf volgende om half acht haar deuren. De UT roept medewerkers en studenten op om in de avonduren niet naar de campus te komen, tenzij dat ‘onontkoombaar’ is.
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